Jamie, Lisa, James, Scott, Taryn, Paul, Kyle
and Jeremy: I just want you to know that you are loved immensely by our whole
family and that we are all praying for you in a very special way right now! We
are sooo saddened by Don's death here on earth but not about his Homegoing!!!He
was suffering so much that we can only rejoice that he is now ALIVE and playing
his trumpet with the saintly choir in heaven! My heart aches for your loss and
you can be assured that I will be praying round-the-clock! Beijos!
Julia A. Hatcher
Washington, D.C.
I heard the news today of Don's passing. I am
attorney in Washington, D.C. who knew Don through his work for the Semiconductor
Industry Association (SIA).
Don was involved in my very first project for SIA -- on the CFC labeling rule --
nearly 20 years ago. I have always harbored enormous respect for Don's
professional ability to develop meaningful industry metrics, no matter what the
regulatory context, as well as for his kind and caring nature.
Indeed, I have only fond memories of various industry meetings with Don,
including in particular, of a trip to Korea for the international meeting in the
1990s when two notable actions occurred by Don that epitomized his nature.
First, Don and another gentleman working for SIA, Lee Neal, took me on a
shopping expedition to the Itaewon in Seoul. At Lee's instruction to leave a
jewelry store to aid our price negotiations over a watch, I walked out with
another watch that we had been considering (and that I had completely forgotten
about) on my wrist. To this day, I believe that it was only due to Don's
demonstration of sincere and profuse apologies to the store owner and the
policeman called by the owner that we did not end up in jail.
Second, after we left Seoul for the resort area of the conference, we stayed in
a high rise hotel where local thieves had arranged for the cleaning staff to
leave the individual room balcony doors unlocked. After Don was awakened by a
man in a black cap trying to enter his room and had chased the man away, Don's
first action was to call and alert me, as the only female from the SIA
contingent, and then to come down to my room to make sure that my balcony door
was not only locked, but blocked with furniture.
Don will be missed, I know, by all who's lives he touched, including by
semiconductor industry "old timers" like me. I prey for Don's family that their
memories provide comfort at this difficult time. In my heart, I know that Don
is in a better place and has gone Home.
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